I thought this was a joke but it's not!

Technology is running amok:

http://www.amazon.com/b/?node=106678980 ... d=16786934

No joke. Now you don't have to pick up your box of depends when you buy your lottery tickets.

One of my friends considered a business of heavy refillable objects such as detergent. They would come to your house once a month and fill up a 30 gallon pump system.

Not sure I am such need that if I am doing the laundry I cant run to any number of stores and buy a temporary smaller bottle at worse.

30 gallons of detergent ought to get a family of four through a year or so, right? I could see some merit in just getting a big honkin' drum of detergent every year. It would really cut down on packaging costs. And psychologically, budgeting for the annual detergent drum as a necessity might feel better than buying a bottle at the store every time you're out and being like "damn, detergent kinda costs a lot when you think about it."

I'm not sure what else this business plan would work for, though. Cat litter?

One of my friends considered a business of heavy refillable objects such as detergent. They would come to your house once a month and fill up a 30 gallon pump system.

The porn industry could probably use it to purchase lube.